Mind Control in Canada - radio series - pt 2
You can see from this list (Projects Chatter, Often, Derbyhat, Third
Chance,Chickwit, MKDelta and QK Hilltop) that there was a large number
of different programs in the 1950's, 60's and 70's ... all of which have
a just a little tidbit of information about them. Most of the actual
documents and so on, nobody has either reviewed or obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act yet. So this is a huge amount of, as yet
still classified information. Now we are going to give you a smattering
run-through of the institutions that were sites for MKULTRA research.
In MKULTRA there were 149 different sub-projects and these were not in
obscure little corners of the world. This is the American Psychological
Association, this is the Butler Hospital Health Centre which is part of
Harvard, Children's International Summer Village ... this is a charming
place ... this is project involving a study of children at an
international summer camp aged 11 and the study of how children who
don't share a common language communicate and in the CIA report it
states that the investigator was unwitting of the fact that it was CIA
funding and the purpose of the CIA in these 11 year olds was that they
might possibly identify promising young foreign nationals for future use
by the Agency. Columbia University, Cornell, Denver, Emory, Florida,
George Washington, Harvard. This will give you a feel for who is
involved in this stuff. Hous ton, Illinois, Indiana Univers ities,
Johns Hopkins, Eli Lilly was the big supplier of LSD to the CIA. Those
of you who can remember the sixties might remember the "House of the
Rising Sun" by the British rock group, The Animals. They had a song
called "The Girl Named Sandoz". Sandoz was the employer of Hoffman who
discovered LSD in the forties, and Sandoz was the original supplier of
LSD to the CIA and the military in the 1950's and they wanted a secure
American supplier so they contracted with Eli Lilly to become the
developer. University of Minnesota, New Jersey Reformatory, Bordentown
in Tennessee ... Ohio, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State,
Princeton, Stanford, a couple of universities in Texas, Wisconsin, the
Bureau of Narcotics, a prison, a narcotics farm. So these contracts ...
McGill, NIH, NIMH, National Philosophical Society ... everything and
everybody gets in on the act a little. NRC. So these were all of the
major players in North American psychiatry and psychology who were
receiving this kind of fun ding. Office of Naval Research ... which you
are going to see multiple times on the slides. Worcester Foundation for
Experimental Biology ... all kinds of different agencies and groups.
MKSEARCH was the one that MKULTRA was rolled into. It ran from 1963 to
1973. Again Bureau of Narcotics, New Jersey Neuropsychiatric which is
also an MKULTRA site which I will talk about in more detail. Vaccaville
State Prison which you are going to hear a whole bunch about. Now
BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE which were 1951-53 ... institutions there include
the Bureau of Narcotics, Cornell, Eli Lilly again, NIH, Public Health
Service, University of Minnesota ... you get the idea. Now what about
the proven identity of some of the actual contractors? The terminology
here is ... we've got the contractor and we've got the sub-project
number and I have most of the sub- contract files. Security status ...
TS means top secret cleared, UW means unwitting because this money was
usually put through a funding front and you will see a slide showing how
that was all organized so a person could get money through a CIA funding
front and genuinely not know it was CIA money. They would just think it
was another Foundation. Most of the people you haven't heard of like
James Hamilton, Harold Abramson, Carl Pfeiffer, but you will hear more
about them later today. Some of these people might sound a little
familiar ... Louis Jolyon West at UCLA, Ewen Cameron who was at McGill,
he's been written about a lot, and yes this is Carl Rogers of Rogerian
psychotherapy fame. He was actually a spook psychiatrist with top secret
clearance who w as on the Advisory Board of one of the funding fronts a
nd received funding for psychotherapeutic research on schizophrenia.
It's a very funny thing that Mr. Friendly Carl was in the network.
Martin Orne, you will hear a lot about him. These people were at
University of Oklahoma. They were doing research on street gangs. Four
of the MKULTRA sub-projects were on children and all of the
investigators for those were UW unwitting. Martin Orne's top secret
clearance status. Maitland Baldwin who did stuff on monkey brains.
George White was a CIA career officer who constructed safe houses in San
Francisco and New York where people were recruited in off the streets to
have sex with prostitutes and were given LSD and other drugs without
their knowing it. The rationale for this was that they were attempting
to study reaction of unwitting subjects in civilian settings to mind
control drugs. An alternative hypothesis to this was that they were
actually testing Manchurian candidate prostitute performance. Harold
Wolff was at Cornell. Raymond Prince I have corresponded with. He was UW
unwitting. He did research among the Aruba in Nigeria on their folk
healing practices. R. Gordon Watson-I was a little bit unhappy to see
him on the list, but relieved to see he was unwitting because I read a
book of his called "SOMA: Divine Mushrooms of Immortality" ... a very
interesting book on Fly Agrate which is the little red toadstool with
the white flakes on it. The use of that by circumpolar shamans has a
very interesting history. John Mulholland is actually a magician. When
you go through these documents, all these names are whited out. You have
to piece it together from here and there. It's a great big story trying
to track it all down. Except they goofed it up. John Mulholland was not
whited out once. When you get a file on one of these sub-projects, there
is usually a page in there that has standardized wording about no
individuals associated with this project are witting or so and so whose
name is whited out has top secret clearance and is aware of agency
involvement. There's somebody you have probably heard of. His name is
B.F. Skinner. I am still doing some of the archival research to find
out what his sub-project number is, and what his security status is but
I would suspect it will turn out to be top secret. Just before we get to
that slide, I am going to read you some material, some of which is in
your handout. As you can see, these slides are going to show you an
awful lot of connections between an awful lot of different things here.
You get the gist ... there were a lot of different sub-projects, a lot
of different investigators all over mainstream academia. Now I am going
to jump to proving to you that MPD has been created by the CIA and the
military since WWII. The first stop off point is at the back of your
series of handouts there. It's a publication called "Science Digest,
April 1971", the author is G.H. Estabrooks. The article is called
"Hypnosis Comes of Age". When you go to page 48, I am going to read
this out loud for the benefit of people listening to this on tape. He's
now writing, in 1971, and says the following: "One of the most
fascinating but dangerous applications of hypnosis is its use in
military intelligence. This is a field with which I am familiar through
formulating guidelines for the techniques used by the United States in
two world wars." (Ross: For those of you who are not history buffs, that
means at least back to 1914.) "Communication in war is always a
headache. Codes can be broken. A professional spy may or may not stay
bought. Your own man may have unquestionable loyalty but his judgment
is always open to question. The "hypnotic courier" on the other hand,
provides a unique solution. I was involved in preparing many subjects
for this work during World War II. One successful case involved an Army
Service Corps Captain whom we'll call George Smith. Captain Smith had
undergone months of training. He was an excellent subject but did not
realize it. I had removed from him, by post-hypnotic suggestion, all
recollection of ever having been hypnotized. First I had the Service
Corps call the captain to Washington and tell him they needed a report
on the mechanical equipment of Division X headquartered in Tokyo. Smith
was ordered to leave by jet next morning, pick up the report and return
at once. These orders were given him in the waking state. Consciously,
that was all he knew, and it was the story he gave his wife and friends.
Then I put him under deep hypnosis, and gave him-orally-a vital message
to be delivered directly on his arrival in Japan to a certain
colonel-let's say his name was Brown-of military intelligence. Outside
of myself, Colonel Brown was the only person who could hypnotize Captain
Smith. This is "locking". (Ross:I have had patients talk to me about
"locking".) I per formed it by saying to the hypnotized Captain: 'Unti l
further orders from me, only Colonel Brown and I can hypnotize you. We
will use a signal phrase 'the moon is clear'. Whenever you hear this
phrase from Brown or myself you will pass instantly into deep hypnosis.'
When Captain Smith re-awakened, he had no conscious memory of what
happened in trance. All that he was aware of was that he must head for
Tokyo to pick up a division report. On arrival there, Smith reported to
Brown, who hypnotized him with the signal phrase. Under hypnosis, Smith
delivered my message and received one to bring back. Awakened, he was
given the division report and returned home by jet. There I hypnotized
him once more with the signal phrase, and he spieled off Brown's answer
that had been dutifully tucked away in his unconscious mind. The system
is virtually foolproof. As exemplified by this case, the information
literally was "locked" in Smith's unconscious for retrieval by the only
two people who knew the combination. The subject had no conscious memory
of what happened, so couldn't spill the beans. No one else could
hypnotize him even if they might know the signal phrase. Not all
applications of hypnotism to military intelligence are as tidy as that.
Perhaps you have read 'The Three Faces of Eve'. (Ross:Now here he makes
a scholarly mistake because he's talking about Morton Prince's "The
Dissociation of a Personality" but he refers to the book "The Three
Faces of Eve".) The book was based on a case reported in 1905 by Dr.
Morton Prince of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. He
startled everyone in the field by announcing that he had cured a woman
named Beauchamp of a split personality problem. Using post-hypnotic
suggestion to submerge an incompat ible, childlike facet of the patient,
he'd been able to make two other sides of Mrs. Beauchamp compatible, and
lump them together in a single cohesive personality. Clinical
hypnotists throughout the world jumped on the multiple personality
bandwagon as a fascinating frontier. By the 1920's, not only had they
learned to apply post-hypnotic suggestion to deal with this weird
problem, but also had learned how to split certain complex individuals
(Ross:a very interesting phrase) into multiple personalities like
Jeckyll-Hydes. The potential for military intelligence has been
nightmarish. During World War II, I worked this technique with a
vulnerable Marine lieutenant I'll call Jones. Under the watchful eye of
Marine Intelligence, I split her personality into Jones A and Jones B.
Jones A, once a "normal" working Marine, became entirely different. He
talked communist doctrine and meant it. He was welcomed
enthusiastically by communist cells, was deliberately given a
dishonorable discharge by the Corps, which was in on the plot,
(Ross:that's called "sheep-dipping", that's the technical term for that)
and became a card-carrying party member. The joker was Jones B, the
second personality, formerly apparent in the conscious Marine. Under
hypnosis, this Jones had been carefully coached by suggestion. Jones B
was the deeper personality, knew all the thoughts of Jones A, was a
loyal American and was "imprinted" to say nothing during conscious
phases. All I had to do was hypnotize the whole man, get in touch with
Jone s B, the loyal American, and I had a pipeline straight into the
Communist camp. It worked beautifully for months with this subject, but
the technique backfired. While there was no way for an enemy to expose
Jones' dual personality, they suspected it, and played the same trick on
us later. Now the only question becomes 'is Estabrooks some sort of
kook'? Maybe he didn't really do this, maybe he's grandiose, or
delusional, or just bullshitting, or whatever. So let's take a look at
who G.H. Estabrooks is. How are we going to do that? We are going to
talk to a JFK assassination researcher who tells us that Estabrooks'
personal papers are all at Colgate College in Hamilton in Upper State
New York-that there's a whole bunch of boxfulls of all his personal
papers, his correspondence, his files, and so on. So what we will do is
send our secretary up there for five days to go through those 17 boxes
which are un-indexed, un-researched and unpublished in any form and then
we will request a bunch of that material to be photocopied and we will
bring it back to our office in Richardson, Texas -- we will look at it,
and then we will talk about it in Orange County, California later on.
What we find is G.H. Estabrooks was born in Newfoundland in Canada-so he
is already suspect bec ause he is Canadian. He is not really too dumb,
he's a Rhodes Scholar. He ends up studying, I am pretty sure, under
Gardner Murphy at Harvard, takes a Ph.D and spends really his entire
adult professional career at this obscure Colgate College in Upper State
New York. So is he just an isolated kook, or is he connected in in any
way? Well as I am going through all this military mind control research
in the library, I am aware that Martin Orne, who we will get to in a
while, is one of the people I want to focus in on. And I notice in one
of Martin Orne's papers that he has referenced G.H. Estabrooks' 1942
textbook, which I have read, where he describes creating Manchurian
candidates for the military, so I know that Martin Orne is aware of G.H.
Estabrooks' claim to have created MPD. Can I establish any better
connection than that? Well lo and behold I find that G.H. Estabrooks
edited a book to which Martin Orne contributed a chapter. So now, Martin
Orne is totally connected into the whole picture as you will see later,
but if you go to a couple of pages ahead of that material which I just
read, you will see a letter from G.H. Estabrooks dated August 22, 1961:
"Dear Martin, I am sending to thee a special delivery, one halo - pure
gold, one pair of wings which you can try on for size, and a credit card
for use in the hereafter. Your article is, of course, excellent. Upon
receipt of your letter, I immediately called Mittendorff, and he
informed me before I could even broach the subject that they would of
course grant your request for reprints. Some day I am going to have
myself examined and find out why I do not consider these matters before
I embarrass my friends. By the way, I will be at the APA meetings on
Friday and Saturday, September 1st and 2nd, then I will have to whip
back here and head south. If at all possible, I will be up at the
Biltmore. If you and Ron (which is Ron Shore?) are anywhere in the
vicinity, let us sit down and yack at each other. I am not overlooking
the fact that our meeting at Cambridge with yourself and Ron sort of
crystallized an idea in my mind. I had a wonderful month's vacation in
Canada - Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, Murray Basin(?)sp, St. John,
N.B., and home - and we particularly liked the French country. My wife's
native language is French, although she speaks Italian, English and
German as well. I find that with her along, the red carpet is literally
rolled out and we see corners of the back country where they would set
the dogs on me if I happened to turn up alone. Thank you tremendously.
Hope to see you at the APA. My best regards to Ron." So it seems these
guys knew each other.